Despite an improvement in payment, the government still owes $1.5 billion to private power plant operators, according to official sources. 

Petrol pumps should be closed one day a week, Prime Minister's Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury today (July 18, 2022) proposed in a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said that diesel-run power plants will remain closed from today (July 18, 2022).

Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex) has collected gas samples emitted from a shrimp farm at Mongla in Bagerhat.

The Cabinet Division has directed not to use decorative lighting on social programmes and at community centres, shopping malls, shops and households until further notice.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has hinted at raising price of fuel oil by highlighting the country’s energy situation in the wake of rising oil and gas prices in the global market.

The government has no alternative other than load shedding to address the ongoing gas and electricity crisis at least till September, Energy Advisor to the Prime Minister Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury said today (July 7, 2022).

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen not to put up special decorative lights on the occasion of social events at community centres, shops, offices and houses in order to save electricity.

Mentioning that electricity from the second unit of Payra, Rampal power plants and 1600MW imported from India will be added to the national grid by this year, Nasrul Hamid, state minister for power, energy, and mineral resources, said, "Hopefully, the current situation will not last long."

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (July 5, 2022) said that she is considering “area-based load shedding” for a specific period to save fuel used for power generation.

People in several northern districts have been enduring severe power cuts over the last two-three days.

Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, energy advisor to the prime minister, today stood in favour of power generation using coal and said Bangladesh did not make any promise regarding Net Zero Emissions by 2050.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Nasrul Hamid, today said power generation is facing disruption due to a shortage in gas supply.

Gas is being emitted from an enclosure at a fish farm in Mongla of Bagerhat. The landowner’s family is now using the gas for cooking.

Russia is increasing gasoline and naphtha supplies to Africa and the Middle East as it struggles to sell fuel in Europe, while Asia is already taking bigger volumes of Russian crude, Refinitiv Eikon data showed and sources said.

The government will not implement the second phase of the Matarbari coal-based power plant.

Europe's biggest Russian gas buyers raced to find alternative fuel supplies on Monday (June 20) and could burn more coal to cope with reduced gas flows from Russia that threaten an energy crisis in winter if stores are not refilled.

Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) said the government’s process of setting fuel price without holding any public hearing is “illegal”.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, currently visiting India, met the country’s Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri in New Delhi – to discuss bilateral cooperation in the energy sector.

At a gas station near the Cologne, Germany, airport, Bernd Mueller watches the digits quickly climb on the pump: 22 euros ($23), 23 euros, 24 euros. The numbers showing how much gasoline he’s getting rise, too. But much more slowly. Painfully slowly.